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RV '23 PROGRAM

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2023 REBEL VERSES illustration Design By Ondionna Phillips​

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MCs
Brianna Suarez-Thomas
Bryson Brunson

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GUEST ARTISTS
August 3 @7PM: Kevin Powell & La Bruja
August 4 @7PM: Bonafide Rojas
August 5 @2PM:: Lemon Andersen
August 5 @7PM: Kara Young


DEVELOPING ARTISTS
Opening Performers
Lauren Ince
Wren Wert
Zachree Adams
Azaria Best
Andy Levy
Arabella Neff
Medina Anthony

Performing Ensemble
Angel Frias
Timothy Kim
John Negron
Ondionna Phillips
Vioarly Joachim
Nathaniel Valdivieso
Kayla Suarez-Alvarez
Mia Fowler
Vicckaash Krishnan
Esme Thorne
Sydney Goodman
Zaniyah Jones
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Creative Team
Jill DeArmon
Harvaniya Krishnan
Danielle Dougé
Naila Negron
Salena Steward
Megan Greener
Bryson Brunson



THE DOOR
Performers
Arusha Wadhwa
Heather DeAmario
Anne Charles
Selena Pantelis

Creative Team
Miraku da Jali
Courtney
Deonell
Cerai
Megan Kemple
Special thanks to Alejandro Rodriguez and Holly Harrison


Hi-ARTS' & URBAN WORD'S JOURNAL 2 JOURNEY
Performers
Fathmah
Lucki Islam
Stephanie Pachecho
Nickolas Vaccaro


Creative Team
Osh Ashruf
Aaron L. McKinney
Karl Michael Iglesias

Journal 2 Journey is a partnership between Hi-ARTS and Urban Word.


GIRL BE HEARD
Performers
Ava Bales 
Kai Diata Giovanni
Alexie Safiya Illaga 

Creative Team
Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens 
Nella Mupier 
Nell Johnson 
Laura Ennis
PLEASE NOTE: A prop gun will appear on stage during this Girl Be Heard’s performance.

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MCC THEATER YOUTH COMPANY
Performers
Chance Smith
Dalba Tieno
Phoebe Carlstrom

Creative Team
Meggan Gomez
Dee Hughes
Dom Martello


RV PRODUCTION TEAM
Jill DeArmon - Artistic Director
Lianne Becker - Producing Director
Megan Greener - Program Director/Acting Coach
Nicole Amaral - Stage Manager
Adrian Yuen - Lighting Designer
Nathanael Brown - Sound Designer
Bev Fremin - Production Electrician
Em Stripling - Associate Lighting Designer
Amaya Montanez - Production Assistant
Abigail Hosford - Gallerist
Electricians: Olivia grasso, Will Ephingstone, Maz Sailer, akvinder Somal, JD Caesar, Jimmy Dewhurst
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SPECIAL THANK YOUS
Filipe Costa, Portia, Reza Salazar, Shawn Randall, Liza Colón-Zayas, David Zayas, Russell G. Jones, Aya Aziz, Liza Jessie Peterson, Steven Sapp, Benvenuti Arts, Vineyard Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, Materials For The Arts, Adrian White, Esti Bernstein, Jaden DeArmon

Christina Germaine(co-founder), Katherine Hutt (co-founder), Scarlet Maressa Rivera (Managing Director), Martin Sweeney (IT) at Houghton Hall Arts & The Church of the Transfiguration

Mina Hatano and the team at 4THBIN
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​Kathy Cluxton and the Main Light Team


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DEVELOPING ARTISTS
Board of Directors
Chris Bell, Heather Corbett, Jenice Malecki, Jill DeArmon, 
Jinn S. Kim, Julian Elijah Martinez, Ana Ortiz

Advisory Council
Kevin Geer (In memoriam), Stephen Adly Guirgis, Sean Headley, Philip Seymour Hoffman (In memoriam), Phivos Christofides, Russell G. Jones, Diana Oh, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Stephen Sapp, Sarah Sidman, Ben Snyder, Barbara Toy, David Zayas

Staff
Jill DeArmon - Artistic Director
Jinn S. Kim - Executive Director
Chris Bell - Managing Director
Lianne Becker - Producing Director
Megan Greener - Program Director/Acting Coach
Nicole Amaral - Program Manager
Brianna Suarez-Thomas - Social Media Coordinator

Developing Artists is now accepting students age 13 - 17 for Fall 2023!​
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OUR GENEROUS FUNDERS

REBEL VERSES is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council as well as the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support is provided by Curtis McGraw Foundation, Donald C. Brace Foundation, Find Your Light Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Lotos Foundation, NYCT/Mosaic Foundation, Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation, Tiger Baron Foundation. Rebel Verses is also supported by a Good Neighbor rental subsidy provided by Vineyard Theatre.

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​Fax: 917.210.1065
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